Paweł Kuczyński's satirical illustrations. “Nowadays, people find out what they think on television.”
The artist has to spend a lot of time looking for interesting ideas and infoprovocations, and he himself becomes “a researcher of modern people and their habits”.
Why was Taras Shevchenko sent to penal servitude and how much was paid to ransom him to freedom? The tragic fate of the artist and poet.
In 1847, gendarmes at someone's instigation seized Shevchenko, searched him and found “obscene drawings with nudity” and seditious poems. It is hard to be an artist and poet in Russia.